Q. Pheevr

Do you have the table of contents posted anywhere? It would be nice to see the chapter titles as well as the authors, to get a better sense of the range of topics covered.

Josh *Hawley*?!

They’re using hyphens instead of en dashes for ranges, and instead of a proper minus sign! 😱

Detail of Barbara Paterson’s bronze statue of the Famous Five in Ottawa. In the part of the sculpture shown here, Nellie McClung is holding up a newspaper page that says: Journal / October 18, 1929 / Women are Persons… / Les femmes sont des personnes… / 18 octobre 1929.

Quis custodit ipsos pelorides?

Well, I’m Canadian, I’m at least 18 years old, and I *have* a webcam, but I’m certainly not about to turn it on.

Well, that would just be confusing!

If the name of the example were “42” then we would write “in 42” instead of “in (42)”, and then the poor readers would be sorely perplexed, wondering why we were talking about something being in a number. But if “(42)” can be the object of a preposition, then we can’t just plop it in all by itself.

No, the example is named “(42)”, because that’s how examples are named. They have parentheses. The parentheses mark them as examples. They are not parenthetical.

So that takes us back to “(example (42))”. It can’t be “(example 42)” because the name of the example is “(42)”, not “42”.

Well, normally you don’t put the word “example” before them, because the parentheses identify them as example numbers. But it would look silly to write “((42))” without anything else inside the outer parentheses.

Example numbers *always* have parentheses immediately around them, which are there solely to identify them as example numbers and do not make them parenthetical in any substantive way (unlike the parentheses around dates in author–year citations, for example).

You could put the whole thing in parentheses to make it a parenthetical, but if it’s an example, then the example number still needs its own set of parentheses (example (42)).

The fact that example numbers are delimited by parentheses does not make them inherent parentheticals, and if you plunk one down at the end of a clause without the courtesy of an “as in”, you are violating the Theta Criterion.

#AmEditing

Anyone who’s capable of understanding why being a fascist is a bad thing to admit to should be able to understand why it’s a bad thing to be.

I agree with what you say here, and given how the original post was framed, I’d like to add that I have Russian and Israeli friends, too, and I don’t hold them individually responsible for the crimes of Putin and Netanyahu.

A scaup, seen in profile paddling in shallow water. It’s a duck with a bluish bill, black head and neck, orange eye, brown-and-white midsection, and dark tailfeathers.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific:

Chinga la MIGA

My fave is “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (the problem being Eric Clapton, of course).

Imelda Staunton wearing a sash that says 1940

“the vessel indents to continue on its voyage”

Starting a new paragraph in its journey, I suppose…

A fun game to play in the bike lane with the low-slanting sun in your eyes:
• Is that dark, shiny patch just wet, or is it icy?
• Is that pale, non-shiny patch snow, or is it dry pavement with a residue of salt?

(And I say I was born in the seventies, but really I was only born in one of them.)

What do you mean by that, and how is it relevant?

I love seventies music, like Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind Instruments in D Minor (1878), Joan Baez’s “Diamonds & Rust” (1975), and Joseph Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony (1772).

Of course, you also shouldn’t become a tool of the murderous Trump regime or the murderous Netanyahu regime.

Screenshot of a subheadline from the New York Times, reading “Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government”

I suppose the context makes it clear enough that this refers to the government of Iran. But still…

Linguists are not kidding when we say that the human language faculty enables you to produce and understand sentences that have never been uttered before.

@q-pheevr's finished Cross|word That Settles That

Seems fine to me
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